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 The Peking Target - Adam Hall
Newest Review: ... rights leaving the way for endless James Bond movies with their over-the-top bad guys trying to destroy the world. In The ... more  ... Peking Target, Quiller is informed that one of his colleagues was returning from an assignment with highly sensitive information that he would only deliver in person but that he was killed when his car was forced off the road before he could pass on what he had learnt. Quiller is both shocked and disturbed. Those in his business have an unspoken agreement never to terminate agents in their own countries to avoid diplomatic incidents and for someone to do this means that the information he carried was of extreme import...more |
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The Peking Target - Adam Hall: Step away from the lime-light Mr.Bond....... (837 words)
by - written on 10/11/08 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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The Peking Target is part of a series of espionage thrillers set during the cold war featuring the mysterious agent that only known as Quiller who works for an unspecified goverment department. The series is written by Adam Hall which itself is one of many pseudonyms used by Elleston Trevor which in itself was a pseudonym used by British novellist Trevor Dudley-Smith. Confused? So was I when I did my research!!!! All this aside, the Quiller series is one I have followed for many years, following a very early reading experience, and is as close to resembling the real life of a British spy as you are ever going to get in fiction. Quiller is very much like a more ... Read the complete review
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